Fort Madison Daily Democrat (Newspaper) - August 25, 1994, Fort Madison, Iowa 4 Dally August 1994 Fort Iowa Clinton no longer amused by Doonesbury Fran WASHINGTON AP Presi dent Clinton is a favorite target of political often depicted with an elongated chin and a vacant But as a waffle Of all the caricatures of Clin Garry Trudeau may have come up with the one that slashes the In his Doonesbury strip this the Pulitzer Prizewinning cartoonist has been depicting Clinton as a floating To a White House already hy to the depiction must have seemed like the cut of coming from the pen of Trudeau whom many White House insiders had viewed if not a at least After George Bush was the one who bore a long grudge against Trudeau for depicting him as And former Vice President Dan Quayle was drawn by the cartoonist as a drifting Clinton made Trudeau one of his early White House dinner It seems unlikely hell be invited The Clinton waffle appears at a time when White House aides are trying to depict Clinton as decisive and pouring his energies into crime and health care legislation before a fractious Drawing Clinton as a waffle is more significant than Trudeaus lampooning Quayle as a suggested former chief of In you expect your opponents to attack When those who should be on your side turn on you and ridicule youve got real he In Mondays the strip ushering in the new presidential Trudeau declares his readers had spoken with a roar in choosing the waf fle over what he called the other finalist for a Clinton symbol a flipping In the three quotes emanate from the levitating waf fle that poke fun at Clintons health care Univer sal coverage or the waffle says in one quote 90 says the I can live with 70 per says the Cartoonists have not been kind to Clinton in recent The 1890s werent always that calm Syndicated political cartoonist Pat showed Clinton recently in his an up side down pot on his trying to fend off a giant armored knight marked Senate with a table knife and a garbage can As Clintons approval ratings go down in his chin appears to get longer and larger in car His hair gets more He gains more Both the president and his have been ridiculed in a rash of Whitewater cartoons some showing them paddling a sinking A recent cartoon by New York Doug Marlette shows a rumpled Im sick of all this criticism My ad ministration has put millions of people to Clinton says in the In the second he adds most of them are special Tom Raum has covered the White House for The Associated Press since One hundred years ago life in Fort Madison moved at a slower There were no sounds of airplanes no thunder ing of trucks along the no sounds of sirens and no automobile accidents to worry Life must have been much simpler then but maybe it wasnt quite as idyllic as it Some indication of the of those times can be found in the following incidents published in the Fort Madison Democrat in the There was a collision at about 9 oclock between Lawrences ice wagon and a spring wagon driven by of West in the rear of the Anthes Both vehicles were badly damaged no one was Kiefers horses took fright at the ice wagon and the collision was tbe Here is another A drunken stone cutter with a bronco pony and a road wagon cut quite a dash down Second Street Avenue G yesterday Regardless of the fact that the street was full of bicycles and Vie threw down his reins andlet tbe pony It finally ranso fast that it lost its footing and fell in the middle of the The police did the rest Just as automobiles sometimes get out of control these so did horses at that One ex ample can be found in another story from the Democrat of those Two Denmark Asa Brockway and Frank were in the city yesterday after noon and in starting home about 6 oclock met with a disasterous About 7 oclock James Truesdale reported from the toll gate at the bridge that a runaway team had been caught minus the Police officer Hoover got the team and put it up in Byers livery When he returned to the police station someone had reported that there was a demolished buggy in the 400 block of Fifth The officer went to the scene of the but the men had disappeared and did not show up until this morn when their identity was Pedestrians were also at risk in those as this item reveals a prominent and respected young resident of West was in the city last even ing and was out driving with a lady friend when he became the victim of an unfortunate He was driving along when George little child started to run across the street in the dark and was struck by the but not Other members of the family out Kindig grabbed lines and held the horse he says so he could see who the driver At the same time Berthold atV to settle the horse with a When the animal reared it threw Kindig down and the buggy ran over but did no serious Kindig had the young man arrested and he was taken before Justice of the Peace Kindig alleged that the driver had struck him with the Berthold pleaded guilty to the saying at the time that not but wanted to get out of the He was fined and which he The young lady showed her self to be true blue by staying with him and refusing to go home until the matter was Life may have been a bit slower in the Gay Noise levels and pollution may not have been the major concerns then that they are and transportation certainly moved at a snails pace compared to the but there were traffic problems even DUE TO A SHORTAGE OF SPECIALISTS RESULT OF GALL BLADDER BV ONE INTENTIONED OF OUR WELL BUREAUCRATS We all want to know all about Di Its a public forum The Daily Democrats opinion page is a public Bylined do not necessarily reflect the opinions of The Daily The general public is encouraged to participate in the forum through signed letters to the Names of letter writers will not be withheld by Staff columnists and letter writers are encouraged to express their opinions on any within certain The Daily Democrat will not publish columns or letters that are potentially libelous or Of all the celebrities I have ever seen on this is no one has ever created the excitement caused by Princess She is not only the Marthas but whenever I speak to the main people want every morsel of information I can give I had unbelievable ex when I spotted her one morning walking down Main Street in Vineyard Haven with some At first I couldnt believe my so I started pinching myself until it Is it really her I asked my friend Fain with whom I was talking on the street Its he assured My wife has the same I was afraid it would come to I Shes been stalking me for three I decided to play it cool and pretend that we in Vineyard Haven are used to British Royal ty strolling down our As she passed me no more than a foot away I bent down and started to tie my I wasnt snubbing her at the same time I wasnt going to curtsy and tell her to have a nice As soon as she disappeared into a store I rushed to a pay telephone to call ones all over the I saw Princess I shouted to my sister Edith in The reaction was exactly as She shouted to her son David ARTHUR SAW PRINCESS She yelled it so loud the neigh bors all came What was she wearing one of the neighbors screamed into the A red and black Art Buchwald Was she wearing a tiara Edith wanted to it was the first thing I Why not a tiara A tiara is too fancy for Vineyard It only goes in My sister How did people react when they saw I woman took one look at her covered their legs with beach towels and went fetal Did you sense she was having a good time I Everyone looked at her in but no one came up to her and asked to have a picture with A lady standing next to me I have to get her autograph my husband will never believe I saw The lady next to her What kind of relationship do you have with your husband if he wont believe you saw a member of the royal family Edith Im so proud of You didnt even try to see and when you did you didnt let her know how impressed you Id never invade DiS privacy when she is on Thats why were such good Letters FOB Daily US PS An Independent Newspaper The Delly Democrat Is published by The Democrat Compeny Fort Iowa Box Phone Publisher Assistant Publisher Joe Editor Composing Mailroom Mery Accounting Tom Production i Advertising Debbie Circulation paid at Subscription Rates By In Fort Madison and communities SS 2S every lour weeks for 12 weeks lor 24 weeks tor 48 By motor route tor 48 weeks lor 24 weeks CO tor 12 By man In Lee tor 48 weeks lor 24 weeks lor 12 latea by cal the Democrat between 9 m and and wH provide NJ or her name and you cannot between and S I you Ive In the ety ol Fort changes to Box Fort IA A 60day cooling period wont solve the problem I follow the comments regular ly in the Daily Democrat ing the issues of our Police Chief Jerry City Manager John city council and Sam If my memory is made some allegations concerning the management of our local police In some shocking City Manager Pick ran an in according to at torney did it accord ing to proper procedure and ad vised Lozano that he could take his complaints to the city council if he wanted to pursue it which he but was cut off after five minutes of floor again due to The Councils decision was to let it cool down for 60 and nothing was to be discussed con the And indeed it the person discussing it would be subject to a I All councilors but Willard Britton voted in favor of the My question although Pick did everything according to proper what were his findings What were his recom Were or any of the allegations true A 60day waiting period will not make a problem go if there or It will only be forgotten about and nothing and the situation will still I feel that if I were or allegations made concerning my conduct and was given a 60day cooling off I would either find another job within that time frame and be and the issue would then be or I would be fully prepared to answer to the On the other if I were the one making the I could withdraw my statements and go on living with the pre existing even if they werent Either a problem does exist within the This is difficult to as I think we have an excellent police And all applicants were screened for the chiefs and selected by the I havent heard of any resignations from the or from manage so evidently everybody is still I that the allega tions made by Lozano should be followed upon and found out if or any of are true or If there is no basis for his al I fee that Lozano has put himself in a position where he must answer and take whatever action is neces sary to end future problems either by way of a reprimand or due to On the other if the al legations are found to be then that person should also have to and the same type of action be taken if it were in Ray Fort Today in history ty Tha Press Today is the 237th day of There are 128 days left in the Todays highlight in history Fifty years on wild celebrations ensued as Paris was liberated by Allied for ces after four years of Nazi oc German Dietrich von sur rendered to French Jacques Philippe Leclerc without carrying out Hitlers order to level the French On this date In hundreds of French colonists arrived in with some of them settling in presentday New In Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English traveling from to in 22 In philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche died in In the National Park Service was established within the Department of the In the United States signed a peace treaty with In forces overran New Georgia in the Solomon Is lands during World War In Romania declared war on In President Truman or dered the Army to seize control of the nations railroads to avert a In the Broadway musical 42nd Street Producer David Merrick stunned both cast and audience during the curtain call by announcing that the shows Cham had died that same
